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The long-running financial problems of the Donald W. Wyatt Correctional Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, resulted in a Chapter 11 filing this month.

The meeting, set for July 22 and July 23, will be the board's final quarterly meeting of fiscal year 2026.

"Currently, we are spending a lot more time of our day in the regulatory space in responding to proposed rules and changes," GFOA's Paige Mellerio said.

Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton says cyber preparedness has become a key credit signal for muni investors, with issuer readiness potentially affecting borrowing costs, liquidity, capital market access and confidence in timely debt service.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board want the U.S. Appeals Court for the First Circuit to uphold a lower court's rejection of the bondholders greater than $3.7 billion claim.

The updated FAQs offer "important insights about recordkeeping requirements related to new issue pricing," NAMA Executive Director Susan Gaffney said.

"Nothing motivates enforcement staff more than protecting those who invest their savings in our markets," said David Woodcock, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement.

A hearing on the borrower's motion to dismiss is set for July 15.

Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton breaks down why munis became the fixed-income standout in 1H 2026, as tax-exempt income, SMA demand, healthy supply-demand dynamics, curve positioning, active security selection and spread compression offset geopolitical volatility and shifting Fed expectations.

The first tobacco bond payment default raises the prospect of additional isolated failures, but not a systemic sector collapse, according to Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton, highlighting how vintage, lien, turbo and reserve features can produce sharply different cash flow and liquidity outcomes.

The Trump administration's attempt to strip funds for the Gateway Hudson River rail tunnel project "fragrantly" violated federal law, according to a judge.

"We're basically engaging more of the bond market ecosystem in everything we do," said Mike Nicholas, CEO of the Bond Market Association.

A lawsuit filed in federal court comes as the turnpike was seeking approval from a state oversight council for $1.5 billion of revenue bonds.

Artificial intelligence is changing the world, including the way bond issuers are dealing with disclosures to investors and relations with the Security and Exchange Commission.

The bankruptcy case of a small Washington state city can move forward, a U.S bankruptcy court judge ruled, rejecting a legal challenge by a developer.

Conners & Co. consented to FINRA's findings without admitting or denying them.

The groups are taking additional steps to try to stop or pause development of a major industrial park between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

A state court validated up to $1.35 billion of Series 2026 special tax revenue bonds for a project to replace the city's convention center.

The AI data center boom will test communities' power, water and infrastructure capacity, requiring public finance professionals to determine who bears the costs and how private investment can produce lasting public benefit.

"It's hard to know whether a decrease in enforcement is a statistical blip or early evidence of [a] meeker, milder FINRA in the current era," said Benjamin Edwards, an associate dean at UNLV law school.